doctrinal

1. 1.

   relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine

   “quibbling over doctrinal minutiae”

Questions about doctrinal

What does doctrinal mean?

doctrinal means "relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine".

How many syllables are in doctrinal?

doctrinal has 3 syllables: doc-tri-nal. The stress falls on "doc". In IPA it is /ˈdɑktɹənəl/.

Is doctrinal a common word?

doctrinal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.